Merch Traffic LLC, the exclusive merchandiser for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, filed suit in New Jersey federal court Thursday claiming that dozens of unidentified sellers plan to flood the Prudential Center with counterfeit Springsteen gear during the band's upcoming Newark concert.
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Springsteen Merch Co. Files TM Suit Before NJ Concert

By Carla Baranauckas

Merch Traffic LLC, the exclusive merchandiser for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, filed suit in New Jersey federal court Thursday claiming that dozens of unidentified sellers plan to flood the Prudential Center with counterfeit Springsteen gear during the band's upcoming Newark concert.

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Newark Hit With Class Action Over Missing, Late OT Pay

By George Woolston

Two public works employees for the city of Newark alleged in New Jersey federal court on Thursday that the city's complex overtime approval process results in unpaid, underpaid or late overtime payments.

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McCarter & English, Port Authority Rip Atty's Veteran Bias Suit

By Jake Maher

McCarter & English LLP, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and Port Authority chair Kevin O'Toole blasted a veteran discrimination suit from a former McCarter & English attorney as based on an unfounded conspiracy theory in motions to dismiss this week.

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Irish Mallinckrodt Unit Stuck In Drug Price-Fixing Suit

By Ben Zigterman

An Irish entity of drugmaker Mallinckrodt waited too long to seek dismissal of a price-fixing lawsuit brought by states based on a lack of personal jurisdiction or proper service, a Connecticut federal judge has ruled, finding that the company first raised that argument more than five years after the complaint was filed.

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Ex-Pharmacy Director Denies Using Trade Secrets At New Job

By George Woolston

A former director at a specialty infusion therapy pharmacy urged a New Jersey federal court to reject her former employer's bid to block her from working for a rival, arguing that her new job does not pose any threat of imminent harm to her former company.

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States Tell Jury That Live Nation Isn't Above The Law

By Stewart Bishop

Counsel for 33 states and the District of Columbia on Thursday urged a Manhattan federal jury to show the world that even "a $36 billion behemoth" like Live Nation isn't above antitrust laws and find it liable for flagrantly monopolizing the U.S. live entertainment market, to the detriment of artists, venue operators and fans.

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THIRD CIRCUIT

Attys, Scholars Can Back Khalil In 3rd Circ. Detention Fight

By Carla Baranauckas

The Third Circuit granted three separate motions from civil rights groups, immigration experts and habeas scholars Thursday to file amicus briefs supporting Mahmoud Khalil's request for en banc review of a precedential decision that cleared the way for the government to continue detaining the Columbia University activist.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

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Alpine Skiing Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Skiing has shaped habits I rely on daily as an attorney — focus, resilience and the ability to remain steady when circumstances shift rapidly — and influences the way I approach legal strategy, client counseling and teamwork, says Isaku Begert at Marshall Gerstein.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

DLA Piper Partner Rejects Pregnant Atty's Account Of Firing

By Pete Brush

The DLA Piper partner who fired a pregnant associate said she did so lawfully, telling a Manhattan federal jury her former employee was "in over her head" and disputing that the associate raised pregnancy bias concerns on a termination call.

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6th Circ. Won't Revisit EFAA Ruling Against Adams & Reese

By Patrick Hoff

The Sixth Circuit said it won't reconsider its ruling that a law barring mandatory arbitration of sexual harassment cases kept a former Adams & Reese LLP paralegal's sex harassment and disability bias suit in court, concluding that the firm's objections were already considered.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Laura Stewart Liberty

The past week in London has seen the owner of an oil tanker stuck in the Strait of Hormuz sued by an energy company and an insurer, law firm Boodle Hatfield LLP and two Serle Court barristers sued by a group of Winston Churchill's great-grandchildren, and Welsh Water hit with a fresh class action suit over polluted rivers.

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Calif. Atty Avoids Sanctions For Filing Bogus Citations With AI

By Matt Perez

A California attorney has avoided sanctions over his use of artificial intelligence for a filing in a civil rights case, which resulted in false citations.

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Another Gov't Atty From Vt. Joins Stris & Maher's Team

By Jack Rodgers

A former civil chief of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Vermont has joined Stris & Maher LLP's practice as a partner, the firm announced Friday.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Other states might follow the lead of California and break with President Donald Trump's policies in implementing guardrails for state agencies to contract with AI companies. And after three individual indictments last month for selling banned tech to China, Supermicro has hired Munger Tolles & Olson LLP to conduct an independent investigation, assigned its general counsel to lead an internal compliance review, and shaken up its compliance leadership.

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NJ Justices Won't Review Beasley Allen's DQ From Talc Cases

By George Woolston

The New Jersey Supreme Court has declined to review a lower court's order booting the Beasley Allen Law Firm from multicounty litigation in the Garden State over Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder, according to an order made public Friday.

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Conn. Justices Block Agency's Bias Probe Into Atty Licensing

By Brian Steele

Because citizens blocked the legislature from reviewing court decisions when ratifying the state's 1818 constitution, a Connecticut human rights agency has no power to investigate alleged bias in attorney licensing decisions, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Friday in a unanimous opinion.

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BREAKING: Trump Taps Personal Atty For 2nd Circ.

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced on Friday evening he's tapping Matthew Schwartz, his attorney in the New York hush money case, for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. 

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Adams & Reese

Barnes & Thornburg

Beasley Allen

Birketts LLP

Boodle Hatfield

Browne Jacobson LLP

Burges Salmon

CMS Cameron McKenna

Calcagni & Kanefsky

Campbell Johnston

Clarke Willmott

Cravath Swaine

DLA Piper

Dratel & Lewis

Faegre Drinker

Fieldfisher

Gibson Dunn

Hogan Lovells

Jenner & Block

Kennedys Law LLP

Keoghs LLP

Latham & Watkins

Law Office of Kevin G. Little

Leigh Day

Lowenstein Sandler

Manning Kass

Marshall Gerstein

McCarter & English

McGillivary Steele

Mishcon de Reya

Munger Tolles

Nabarro LLP

Norton Rose

O'Melveny & Myers

O'Toole Scrivo

Ogletree Deakins

Perkins Coie

Pinsent Masons

Ropes & Gray

Serle Court

Shakespeare Martineau

Sills Cummis

Stevens & Bolton

Stevens & Lee

Stris & Maher

Sullivan & Cromwell

Susman Godfrey

TLT LLP

Van Der Hout LLP

Ward Hadaway

Wigdor LLP

Wikborg Rein

WilmerHale

Winston & Strawn

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Abbott Laboratories

Alphabet Inc.

Amazon.com Inc.

American Civil Liberties Union

American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey

Ares Management Corp.

Atlanta Braves

Barclays PLC

British Broadcasting Corp.

Center for Constitutional Rights

Compass Inc.

Compass Minerals International, Inc.

ESPN Inc.

InfuCare Rx

Investments Ltd.

Johnson & Johnson

LinkedIn Corp.

Live Nation Entertainment Inc.

Mallinckrodt PLC

Marriott International Inc.

Midcontinent Independent System Operator Inc.

Morgan Stanley

NBCUniversal Media LLC

NFL Enterprises LLC

Netflix Inc.

New York Civil Liberties Union

PEN America

People's Insurance Company of China

Ping An Insurance

Project Management Ltd.

Sandoz International GmbH

Solicitors Regulation Authority Ltd.

Southwest Power Pool Inc.

Super Micro Computer Inc.

Tata AIG General Insurance Co.Ltd.

The City University of New York

Tonix Pharmaceuticals Holding Corp.

UCLA School of Law

United Therapeutics Corp.

Venture Global LNG

Verizon Communications Inc.

WSP Holdings Ltd.

eBay Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Companies House

Connecticut Judicial Branch

Court of Appeals of New York

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Food and Drug Administration

New Jersey Supreme Court

New York Attorney General's Office

Port Authority of New York & New Jersey

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Vermont

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court

UK Ministry of Justice